Pathways and Polymers (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Independently Published, 2026

9798259110052

Serie: Libro 5 di 13 - The Nobel Chemistry Stories: A Decade-by-Decade Short Story Series

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Paperback. Pathways and Polymers is the fifth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1943 and 1949, chemistry emerged from the shadow of global conflict with unprecedented power. In just seven years, scientists learned to split the uranium nucleus, track the invisible pathways of reactions using radioactive isotopes, and reach the freezing limits of absolute zero to reveal the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. They turned biology into a measurable, isolable science: crystallizing enzymes, purifying viruses until infectivity became a chemical entity, and reading the subtle, electrophoretic patterns hidden inside human blood. The laboratory became intimately entangled with human survival, shaping everything from agricultural food security to the dawn of the atomic age. In this fifth volume, eight prizes become eight works of literary fiction: a munitions lab sabotage exposed when radioactive isotopic tracers reveal an "impossible" chemical side-route; a university laboratory pressured by military intelligence to bury the impossible, world-altering byproducts of nuclear fission; a corrupt village official who engineers economic inequality by manipulating the precise acidic pH required to preserve winter cattle fodder; a quack "vital essence" tonic whose lucrative mystery is destroyed when a biochemist crystallizes its active enzyme; an agricultural crop blight weaponized from a newly purified, laboratory-isolated plant virus protein; a string of seemingly unrelated poisonings traced to a single broker by the structural family tree of plant alkaloids; a medical clinic's misdiagnoses undone by a researcher who reads the true distribution of disease in the electrophoretic separation of blood serum; and, finally, a sensational low-temperature physics claim exposed as a calibration error driven by prestige and instrument mystique. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1940s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Pathways and Polymers (Paperback)
Autore
Simon Alden
Editore
Independently Published
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798259110052
Serie
Libro 5 di 13: The Nobel Chemistry Stories: A Decade-by-Decade Short Story Series

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